Photography Celebrating Transgender Texan Families: Fareen and Sebastian

What a wonderful morning with Sebastian, Fareen, and their wonderful daughter! We played on rocks, we played in the creek, we splashed, and there was tons of love!

Fareen and Sebastian are a queer couple living in Austin, and they absolutely love each other and their awesome daughter. Fareen is a cisgender Desi Muslim woman, Sebastian is a transgender Puerto Rican Catholic man. As I hope is clear from the pictures, these fantastic people just want to be who they are and love who they love. They're putting so much good out into the world!

In Texas, SB6 is a bathroom bill aimed at making going to the bathroom as difficult, and potentially scary, as possible for trans people. The bill is making it's way through the state legislature in a brutal, inhumane, and uncompromising manner despite hours and hours of testimony into the early morning on the damage and stigmatization that the bill will cause.

Some stats from 2015:

• Gender reassignment surgery can cost $15,500

• 41% of transgender people have attempted suicide

• 19% of transgender people have experienced violence or abuse from a family member 

• 26% of people have lost a job due to their identity

• As of 2015 only 18 states had clear laws protecting transgender people

If you live in Texas, call on your representatives to strike down this heinous and bigoted legislation. Put laws on the books protecting amazing families and individuals like Sebastian and Fareen!

Central Texas Pig Rescue

 

If you aren't familiar with Central Texas Pig Rescue (CTPR) and you live anywhere within a two-hour drive of Bastrop, Texas, I could not encourage you more to check them out. They're doing incredible work to rescue and rehabilitate pigs of all size, shapes, and furs from all over and they're also working incredibly hard to educate the public about breeders and the quirks of taking care of pigs.

Brittany and Dan are two gorgeous people who just radiate a warmth that's difficult not to be affected by and going to visit the farm is an act of therapy!

I was lucky-enough to visit several weeks ago and I got to capture some gorgeous shots of Brittany, Dan, the pigs, goats, and the donkeys. Taters had some fun, too!

Please, look up CTPR on Instagram, Facebook, their website, send them a message and coordinate a visit, donate, or adopt one of their beautiful animals to keep the farm thriving. I couldn't be more proud to have worked with these awesome folks!

Love you guys!